Monday 1 April 2013

9th Century (800-899) C.E.


800:
The Aghlabid rule is established in North Africa.
803:
Downfall of the Barmakids. Execution of Jafar Barmki.
805:
Campaigns against the Byzantines. Capture of the islands of Rhodes and Cypress.
809:
Death of Harun ur Rashid. Accession of Amin.
814:
Civil war between Amin and Mamun. Amin killed and Mamun becomes the Caliph.
815:
Shia revolt under Ibn Tuba Tabs.
816:
Shia revolt in Makkah; Harsama quells the revolt. In Spain the Umayyads capture the island of Corsica.
817:
Harsama killed.
818:
The Umayyads of Spain capture the islands of Izira, Majorica, and Sardinia.
819:
Mamun comes to Baghdad.
820:
Tahir establishes the rule of the Tahirids in Khurasan.
822:
Death of Al Hakam in Spain; accession of Abdul Rahman. II.
823:
Death of Tahir in Khurasan. Accession of Talha and his deposition. Accession of Abdullah b Tahir.
827:
Mamun declares the Mutazila creed as the state religion.
833:
Death of Mamun. Accession of Mutasim.
836:
Mutasim shifts the capital to Samarra.
837:
Revolt of the Jats.
838:
Revolt of Babek in Azarbaijan suppressed.
839:
Revolt of Maziar in Tabaristan. The Muslims occupy South Italy. Capture of the city of Messina in Sicily.
842:
Death of Mutasim, accession of Wasiq.
843:
Revolts of the Arabs.
847:
Death of Wasiq, accession of Mutawakkil.
850:
Mutawakkil restores orthodoxy.
849:
Death of the Tahirid ruler Abdullah b Tahir; accession of Tahir II.
852:
Death of Abdur Rahman II of Spain;. accession of Muhammad I.
856:
Umar b Abdul Aziz founds the Habbarid rule in Sind.
858:
Mutawakkil founds the town of Jafariya.
860:
Ahmad founds the Samanid rule in Transoxiana.
861:
Murder of the Abbasid Caliph Mutawakkil; accession of Muntasir.
862:
Muntasir poisoned to death; accession of Mutasin.
864:
Zaidi state established in Tabaristan by Hasan b Zaid.
866:
Mutasim flies from Samarra, his depostion and accession of Mutaaz.
867:
Yaqub b Layth founds the Saffarid rule in Sistan.
868:
Ahmad b Tulun founds the Tulunid rule in Egypt.
869:
The Abbasid Caliph Mutaaz forced to abdicate, his death and accession of Muhtadi.
870:
Turks revolt against Muhtadi, his death and accession of Mutamid.
873:
Tahirid rule extinguished.
874:
Zanj revolt in South Iraq. Death of the Samanid ruler Ahmad, accession of Nasr.
877:
Death of Yaqubb Layth in Sistan, accession of Amr b Layth.
885:
Death of Ahmad b Tulun in Egypt, accession of Khamar- wiyiah.
866:
Death of Muhammad I the Umayyad ruler of Spain, accession of Munzir. Death of Abdullah b Umar the Habbari ruler of Sind.
888:
Death of Munzir the Umayyad ruler of Spain, accession of Abbullah.
891:
The Qarmatian state established at Bahrain.
892:
Death of the Samanid ruler Nasr, accession of Ismail.
894:
The Rustamids become the vassals of Spain.
896:
Death of the Tulunid ruler Khamarwiyiah; accession of Abul Asakir Jaish.
897:
Assassination of Abul Asakir Jaish; accession of Abu Musa Harun.
898:
Qarmatians sack Basra.